6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
[ Upstream commit f97aef092e199c10a3da96ae79b571edd5362faa ]
Commit a755d0e2d41b ("cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us") caused platforms where cpuinfo.transition_latency is CPUFREQ_ETERNAL to get a very large transition latency whereas previously it had been capped at 10 ms (and later at 2 ms).
This led to a user-observable regression between 6.6 and 6.12 as described by Shawn:
"The dbs sampling_rate was 10000 us on 6.6 and suddently becomes 6442450 us (4294967295 / 1000 * 1.5) on 6.12 for these platforms because the default transition delay was dropped [...].
It slows down dbs governor's reacting to CPU loading change dramatically. Also, as transition_delay_us is used by schedutil governor as rate_limit_us, it shows a negative impact on device idle power consumption, because the device gets slightly less time in the lowest OPP."
Evidently, the expectation of the drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL as cpuinfo.transition_latency was that it would be capped by the core, but they may as well return a default transition latency value instead of CPUFREQ_ETERNAL and the core need not do anything with it.
Accordingly, introduce CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS and make all of the drivers in question use it instead of CPUFREQ_ETERNAL. Also update the related Rust binding.
Fixes: a755d0e2d41b ("cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20250922125929.453444-1-shawnguo2@yeah.net/ Reported-by: Shawn Guo shawnguo@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) superm1@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jie Zhan zhanjie9@hisilicon.com Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org Cc: 6.6+ stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2264949.irdbgypaU6@rafael.j.wysocki [ rjw: Fix typo in new symbol name, drop redundant type cast from Rust binding ] Tested-by: Shawn Guo shawnguo@kernel.org # with cpufreq-dt driver Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef qyousef@layalina.io Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com [ omitted Rust changes ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c | 2 +- include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 +++ 7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_p
transition_latency = dev_pm_opp_get_max_transition_latency(cpu_dev); if (!transition_latency) - transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, priv->cpus); policy->driver_data = priv; --- a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ soc_opp_out: }
if (of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-latency", &transition_latency)) - transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
/* * Calculate the ramp time for max voltage change in the --- a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int mtk_cpufreq_hw_cpu_init(struc
latency = readl_relaxed(data->reg_bases[REG_FREQ_LATENCY]) * 1000; if (!latency) - latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency; policy->fast_switch_possible = true; --- a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int scmi_cpufreq_init(struct cpuf
latency = perf_ops->transition_latency_get(ph, domain); if (!latency) - latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency;
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static int scpi_cpufreq_init(struct cpuf
latency = scpi_ops->get_transition_latency(cpu_dev); if (!latency) - latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency;
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int spear_cpufreq_probe(struct pl
if (of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-latency", &spear_cpufreq.transition_latency)) - spear_cpufreq.transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + spear_cpufreq.transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
cnt = of_property_count_u32_elems(np, "cpufreq_tbl"); if (cnt <= 0) { --- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h +++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ */
#define CPUFREQ_ETERNAL (-1) + +#define CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS NSEC_PER_MSEC + #define CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN 16 /* Print length for names. Extra 1 space for accommodating '\n' in prints */ #define CPUFREQ_NAME_PLEN (CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN + 1)